I pretty much love all Margaret Atwood's stuff because it makes me all thinky, and Cat's Eye is the one that randomly pops into my head with someting new to think about the most. Should make for excellent discussion.
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-t - Nov 01, 2007 5:40:47 pm PDT #4242 of 28239
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Amy - Nov 01, 2007 5:42:10 pm PDT #4243 of 28239
Because books.
I haven't read Cat's Eye in years. Maybe it's time to dig it out again.
hippocampus - Nov 02, 2007 3:08:38 am PDT #4244 of 28239
not your mom's socks.
erikaj - second Margaret Atwood & depending on your group's disposition, add either Handmaid's Tale or The Blind Assasin
There is a utopian called Herland, I think - not sure if it's been mentioned?
And Mary Wollstonecraft, George Elliot, and (arguably-not so arguably) Jane Austen, if you're headed in that direction.
Liese - speaking of female cyberpunk characters that don't come from traumatic backgrounds - America Shaftoe (Cryptonomicron, Y.T and Juanita Marquez (both Snowcrash), and Miranda (Diamond Age).
Sue - Nov 02, 2007 3:16:11 am PDT #4245 of 28239
hip deep in pie
I'll suggest The Company Parade by Storm Jameson, which is a novel set between the wars in Britain. The main Character is a woman who leaves her husband and child in the country to come to London to become a writer. It's part of a trilogy, and I really became engrossed in that world.
Also, totally on the other end of the spectrum is The Passion According to GH, by Clarice Lispector. Lispector was a Brazilian writer in the 1960's and 70's. The plot of this novel is "woman kills a cockroach". It's been described as what Kafka would have written if he was a woman.
hippocampus - Nov 02, 2007 3:52:57 am PDT #4246 of 28239
not your mom's socks.
Clarice Lispector
she's amazing.
Toddson - Nov 02, 2007 3:53:44 am PDT #4247 of 28239
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" and/or "Three Guineas"?
Emily - Nov 02, 2007 6:15:40 am PDT #4248 of 28239
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Or Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons, [link] which is slighter, but a good read.
Oh, man. That book, along with Bastard Out of Carolina and The Book of Ruth, made me wary of "Southern women's fiction" as a genre for years.
If you're willing to deal with a bit of preachiness, there's Tepper's Gate to Women's Country or Gibbon's Decline and Fall. The gender-role stuff is huge and explicit and a bit biased (women=creative force for good, men=you can imagine), but I found them interesting.
Hayden - Nov 02, 2007 6:58:30 am PDT #4249 of 28239
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I recommend Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, or Grace Paley's The Little Disturbances of Man (which is a short story collection)
§ ita § - Nov 02, 2007 7:54:57 am PDT #4250 of 28239
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If you're willing to deal with a lot of preachiness, try Tepper's The Fresco. I think she takes the feminism and twists it into something ugly, but it might be good fodder for some heated discussion.
Typo Boy - Nov 02, 2007 7:59:38 am PDT #4251 of 28239
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
...try Tepper's The Fresco. I think she takes the feminism and twists it into something ugly, but it might be good fodder for some heated discussion.
I think she does that a lot.